Grant Gerlock
ReporterGrant Gerlock started covering Des Moines and central Iowa for IPR in March 2019. Before that he covered food, agriculture and rural life for Harvest Public Media at NET in Lincoln, Nebraska, where his work was recognized with a Regional Murrow Award and awards from the Midwest Broadcast Journalists Association.
Grant has a master’s degree in mass communication from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and graduated from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa. He grew up on a farm outside of Cumberland in southwest Iowa where he listened to public radio in the tractor. You can contact Grant at ggerlock@iowapublicradio.org.
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Tax breaks and government contracts for big tech companies like Google and Facebook could be cancelled under a bill advancing in the Iowa Senate. -
School board members could be removed from office for violating state law, and superintendents could face stronger professional sanctions, under a bill advanced by an Iowa Senate subcommittee.
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The Iowa House has passed a $27.2 million funding package for schools to cover costs associated with holding classes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Iowa House and Senate have settled on a 2.4 percent increase in funding for PreK-12 schools next year. Republicans say it provides reliable funding growth, but Democrats say it’s too little to cover increasing costs.
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Gov. Kim Reynolds is prioritizing school choice legislation this year, including a voucher-style program for students in low-performing public schools. But opponents of the bill say it would come at the cost of students who choose to stay.
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Republicans in the Iowa House and Senate have reached an agreement to increase state aid to K-12 public schools by 2.4 percent, or about $36.5 million.
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State aid for PreK-12 schools would increase 2.2 percent under a bill passed in the Iowa Senate. School districts would also be in line for special funding to cover the cost of dealing with COVID-19, but not Des Moines Public Schools.
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Lawmakers in the Iowa legislature are advancing competing proposals to fund schools next year, including special payments to cover the cost of keeping classes safe during the pandemic.
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds has signed a bill into law requiring schools to provide an option for all in-person learning.
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The Iowa Senate and House both passed a bill Thursday requiring schools to offer fully in-person learning, in spite of continued community transmission of COVID-19.
